Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Conclusion

This chapter argues that it is easy to be a good coach. Many simple coaching tools and techniques can be quite effective in helping others grow and develop. At the same time, it is rather difficult to become a great coach and consistently perform at a high level, especially in the face of challenging and novel situations. To do so requires a clear commitment to learning, diligent practice, regular feedback, and disciplined self-reflection.

Regardless of whether you aim to be a great coach, a good coach, or simply seek to keep growing and learning on whatever path you are on, the words of Michelangelo offer some useful advice: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too ...